by Kim Snarr | Oct 19, 2020 | Monday Message, Monday Motivation
American Philosopher and Psychologist William James once said, “Act as if what you do makes a difference. IT DOES.” This is true in our families, in our circle of friends, in the workplace, in our social media and in all of the ways that we interact with our community...
by Kim Snarr | Oct 12, 2020 | Monday Message, Monday Motivation
I remember visiting a dear soul at her bedside a week before she died. She was a person of deep faith and we had enjoyed many conversations as she came to terms with her death and looked back over her life. But that morning when I came to see her, she seemed...
by Kim Snarr | Oct 5, 2020 | Monday Message, Monday Motivation
During our last Call to Connect, Director of Social Work Practice, Ronnie Featherstone shared this poem for a moment of inspiration. “In the Time of Pandemic” by Kitty O’Meara And the people stayed home. And they listened, and read books, and rested, and exercised,...
by Kim Snarr | Sep 28, 2020 | Blog, Monday Message, Monday Motivation
Poets help us to see beauty and mystery that we might otherwise walk right by without noticing. They do the work of exploring and articulating feelings and experiences which so often open our own hearts to depths of feeling which we could not find the words to...
by Kim Snarr | Sep 14, 2020 | Blog, Monday Message, Monday Motivation
If we hope to achieve some level of mutual understanding and shared sense of destiny, we must on a fundamental level, challenge the illusion of our separateness and embrace the fact that our fates and our fortunes are inextricably intertwined. Here is how Trappist...
by Kim Snarr | Aug 31, 2020 | Monday Message, Monday Motivation
Poet and theologian Frederick Buechner writes words of wisdom for us that still resonate today, “Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less in the excitement and gladness . . . because in the last analysis...
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